Yeah, that thought crossed my mind as well...
Especially now when Gentoo is in the lead. Btw, how well known/established is OSnews.com? I can't recall hearing much about it in the past, but then again, I'm not the internet pirate I used to be.

Nice to see Gentoo doing so well. I like Portage, and the BSD init scripts, and I think I've learned more about Linux using Gentoo than any other distro.

However, it's a bit too unstable and, surprisingly, outdated in places. Debian was my choice because unlike Gentoo, I can run it on my Celeron 433 and have a reasonable hope of running KDE, Mozilla and OOo before the next Ice Age. Synaptic is also way cooler than KPortage as graphical package managers go.

Gentoo's youth really shows in places.

really, Gentoo outdated in a places?? i had no idea. And it is stable for me. I dont know what he means by that.

i dont why he cannot run all those apps on Gentoo.._________________"That which is overdesigned, too highly
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I don't believe in these polls as they do not reflex anything but the fact that they are easily manipulated.

That being said I voted Gentoo before it was posted here - I'm a regular at OSNews.

Right. These polls never reflect anything reliably because they are never based on a representative sample and because cheating can never be excluded.
Yet they give exposure to whatever is voted for.
I love Gentoo and I like letting others know about it.

S_aIN_t, not every ebuild is stable, you know. I had to reinstall Gentoo a few times because of broken packages (even without using ~x86). I even thought to install FreeBSD instead. I don't know which one to install right now...

Oh, and looks like we're suspected of cheating again...

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Last year's poll revealed Red Hat as the leading distro, so we did reported on it more. Thing is, distros like Debian and Gentoo have VERY FEW news items to offer, while commercial companies they make press releases to attract attention and let us know in time of things. We just report on whatever is out there.
Personally, I am not convinced that Gentoo was able to lead this poll. I am looking to see if someone has tumpered with the poll.

I'm suprised RedHat has so many votes, do people actualy choose RedHat over other distros?!

Yep, a lot actually. In fact, I was a Gentoo user before RedHat (see register date). RedHat is a great system, much more than "just" a way to install Linux software (unless the first thing you do after installing RedHat is to remove all their customized stuff obviously). Not saying that Gentoo or Debian wouldn't be excellent distributions of their particular kind.

IMO Eugenia is very shortsighted. I think she was expecting everyone to agree with her since she thinks Redhat is the golden god of linux. She doesn't like linux by the way, rates it right at the end of the OS chain.

Either that or she expected people to vote other and comment on how nothing will ever replace her precious beos.

I do remember her negative review of Gentoo 1.2, while I agree with some of her points, she just didn't get what Gentoo is about.

Yes I don't like her, but you don't have to be liked to run a high profile website.

Dev, you are the shortsighted one, the one who doesn't understand who I am or how I think or what experience I got.

>she thinks Redhat is the golden god of linux.

Red Hat is the de facto Linux "standard" today. Commercial compannies make sure their stuff are first compatible with RH and then with every other distro. That doesn't make Red Hat good, neither bad. Red Hat is a great web server, but it is a poor workstation, as all other Linux distros IMO. I use 13 OSes here, I have used about 15 different distros so far and endless versions of these distros, so I can choose for myself what's nice and what can be nice or what can suck for me. Linux is a great server OS, poor workstation, in my own HO.

>I do remember her negative review of Gentoo 1.2, while I agree with some of her points, she just didn't get what Gentoo is about.

I don't have the slightest idea of what you are talking about, because Gentoo was my MAIN Linux distro for 6 months last year. My review was NOT negative, it was as balanced as it could get:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=937 (I never did a 1.2 review btw, only a 1.0, so you are busted on this one too)

>Yes I don't like her

Exactly. This is your problem. You don't like me. And I don't have to be liked.

Thing is, you don't understand what OSNews is about. OSNews is NOT a Linux cheerleader web site, neither an MS or an Apple one. If something is good, we will write about it, if something sucks, we sure as hell we will also write about it. And that's what I like about my site._________________http://www.OSNews.com/

Hmmm, yes...
Linux sucks as a workstation. I guess thats why I only boot into Windows for gaming nowadays. I'd really like to hear your statements as to why it is bad as a workstation. We don't have to start a whole discussion in this thread though. Maybe you can point me to some of your articles on your website.

Linux sucks as a workstation?... please tell that to any member of my family, we have all ditched Windows completely.

I think it's great, now it might not be great for everyone but it sure as hell is a worthy alternative to Windows at this point for most users (remember most Windows users can't even install a program without help - so that's not really a valid argument here)

That being said, I'm not known to be Eugenias biggest fan, but she does have her moments.

Companies choose to use Redhat because they are structured wrong. Management people have no clue when it comes to technology. Their is no such thing as "being standard with Redhat". Linux is a kernel. Redhat has some unique things, but in the end its their is no such thing as "complying to redhat". Complying to Gnome HIG, KDE HIG, W3 standards, encryption standards, etc... now that I can see. But you can't be "Redhat compliant". Besides everyone know that redhat sucks because RPM can't handle dependencies, etc... This is the stupid foundless paridgm of our society, namely "official support". Redhat does have my respect because they used to be "the distro" and have done a lot of work for free software, but I wouldn't trust one entity for all my computing needs. This just isn't the way things naturally work. Neither redhat, debian, or the M$ R&D labs can come up with everything, hire the best programmers, etc... What we need is to work together for general technological improvement. That's the reason I like Gentoo. Gentoo gives me a platfor where I don't *have* to follow any one beaten path. I can make my own ebuilds, etc... without breaking my system. So please Eugenia don't come to our forums and try and say their is a such thing as "redhat compatibility". Their is a such thing as standards compatibility and that's all, and companies can take their propreitary systems and shove it because I live by standards, not by propreitary systems which in the end just make life difficult for everyone.

No. Companies choose Red Hat because Red Hat has a support department, a real portofolio, it is a public traded company, and they have a product that their whole business is built upon.

Companies want SECURITY when they are dealing with other companies. Not a bunch of geeks. Red Hat gives them this security and lets them sleep tight at night.

With distros like Slackware, Debian and Gentoo there is no support department, there is not an official contact where you can chastise him/her when the product doesn't work.

My friend, you only know too little about the market and how that market WORKS.

>Management people have no clue when it comes to technology.

Their IT dpt do though, and most IT dpts ALSO prefer "security" over "coolness". Think about it.

>Their is no such thing as "being standard with Redhat".

Don't change my words.
I never said that there is an "ISO Standard" around Red Hat. What I said was that we like it or not, Red Hat IS the standard today for Linux, at least in US. With ISO or not. Unofficial standard, but the No1 company other companies are looking forward on making business with in the linux arena. You can't deny that.

And developers -- commercial developers -- first support Red Hat and then the rest of the distros, if any.

> Linux is a kernel

No way! Don't say! We didn't know!!!
Please, spare me the lecture that I have heard 1000 times on my forums as well. If we are running Gentoo, we do know what Linux is and what Linux is not.

> What we need is to work together for general technological improvement.

I see your viewpoint. I don't necessarily agree. Not on all cases.

> So please Eugenia don't come to our forums...

You can't tell me where to go and where to come.
Look at my details pal, I am subscribed to this forum ONE YEAR before you join this same forum. I am also a Gentoo user, or used to be, rather. For 6 months last year (I nuked that partition a few weeks ago in order to install FreeBSD 4.8 )._________________http://www.OSNews.com/

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Eugenia, is really getting a bad wrap here. I use Gentoo, because it allows me to deal more directly between the softeware/hardware at a level, and with tool's that are a lot easier to work with than the monolithic configuration designs of mandrake, redhat, or suse.

The other reason I use Gentoo, is the people. I have gotten more real help, and more, usable answers here than any other message board for any other distro I have tried. Espessially Debian.

But perhaps all I can hope for is that, this whole cool new thing won't get torn apart, by the flame baiters who have ruined a lot of good mailing lists. _________________there is no crazy, only violet and non violet..